Important changes to the law on pensions for civil servants in 2021 - latest news

Civil servants are a special category of citizens who carry out labor activities in various government bodies in accordance with the norms of legislation in force on the territory of our rule-of-law state. Depending on the type of functional obligations and positions, the following categories of persons carrying out activities in the interests of the state are distinguished:

• civilians in the public service - the powers of their professional activities extend throughout the entire territory of the Russian Federation, depending on the nature of the work;
• civil service employees who carry out their professional activities only in the constituent entities of the Federation - their powers are limited to a specific region;
• military personnel, etc..

The employer in this case is the Russian Federation, operating through the leadership of specific departments. In the absence of the head of the unit, the execution of his powers is carried out by a deputy or temporary representative appointed to his position for a certain period. The state civil service is regulated by regulatory legal acts of federal legislation.

What is the pension for civil servants in Russia from January 1, 2017?

The latest news reports changes that are planned to be introduced starting next year. Within the framework of this article, we will consider in more detail all the features of the formation of a pension, at what age it is provided, etc.

During this period, the retirement age for civil servants is set at 60 years. However, at the request of management, it is allowed to work for 65-70 years. In accordance with the current legislation, insurance coverage begins at the age of 55 for women and 60 for men. If the work experience is more than 15 years, then the civil servant can count on an additional payment in the appropriate amount, both to wages and to insurance benefits.

Pensions for civil servants in 2021 will be calculated according to a new procedure. In accordance with the norms of Federal Law No. 143, an increase in the retirement age and work experience is provided. With each subsequent year, the experience will increase by 6 months. Thus, in order to receive certain privileges, such an employee will have to work for 15 years and 6 months.

The introduced bill was promulgated by the Ministry of Labor back in mid-2015, but upon approval, amendments were also made to it by the Ministry of Finance. This contributed to the fact that the changes will affect not only high-ranking officials, but also all civil servants.

Increasing the retirement age for civil servants from 2021 – key changes

A gradual increase in the retirement age for civil servants came into effect on January 1, 2021. Law No. 143-FZ of May 23, 2016 has already been approved and has entered into official force. What exactly does this regulatory document regulate?

1. Retirement age – The law establishes a gradual increase in retirement age for the purpose of compulsory insurance payments. The annual increase is 6 months. until the final achievement for men/women of the maximum level of 65/63 years. The current year 2021 is already subject to regulatory changes, when the previous rules for calculating the retirement age for men/women at 60/55 years old do not apply. A detailed plate with data on the extension of retirement age for civil servants is presented below.
2. Mandatory civil service length of service – employees holding government positions are subject to new minimum length of service requirements. According to the old rules, you must have 15 years of experience, according to the new ones - 20 years. The 5-year increase does not increase immediately, but gradually: with an annual increase of 6 months. 20 years until reaching 2026.
3. The term of office for members of the Federation Council/State Duma deputies - the federal law on increasing the retirement age for such civil servants establishes a minimum period of 5-10 years (before changes 1-3 years) for calculating additional monthly remuneration of 55%, from 10 years (before changes from 3 years) – 75%.

Note! No. 143-FZ on raising the retirement age for civil servants does not cancel the procedure for assigning payments only to those employees who retire from government jobs. Employment in commercial organizations is not a basis for assigning a special pension, even if you have the minimum mandatory civil service experience.

Those who have already retired should not worry. But those who are planning to retire this or next year will have to carefully study the law and calculate their length of service, because the retirement age for civil servants has undergone dramatic changes in 2021.

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The years of retirement and periods of minimum service, which are established by the law on increasing the retirement age for civil servants, as well as annual increases, are collected in a single table. All interested employees of government agencies should carefully read the information. Values ​​are given for men, separated by fractions for women.

Table showing how the retirement age for civil servants has been increased since 2017.

How much work experience is required to generate a pension benefit?

The period of labor activity required for retirement is regulated by regulatory legal acts of pension legislation. At the moment it is 15 years, but every year it will increase gradually by six months. If, upon achieving this, the employee continues to occupy his position, then, in accordance with the norms of current legislation, he can count on payment in the appropriate amount.

Work experience can also include the period of performing socially useful work or periods of replacement:

• Federal government employees;
• Government employees of the constituent entities of the Federation.

It is also worth noting that persons working in the Federation Council or deputies of the State Duma will now need to work for 3 years to receive an increase to the basic social benefit. In this case, the amount of the additional payment will be 55% of the official’s basic income. If a person works in this position for more than 10 years, he can count on a maximum additional payment of 75% of earnings.

Raising the retirement age for civil servants - expert comments

Officials suggest that the approved law on extending the retirement age for civil servants will help reduce the expenditures of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, retain valuable personnel, and, according to the representative of United Russia Valery Trapeznikov, test increasing the retirement age for other categories of working citizens. For several years now, Russians have been following the debate on this issue; perhaps Law No. 143-FZ was the first sign and an increase in the retirement age for the rest of the population is just around the corner?

Despite numerous arguments, there are no supporting regulatory grounds yet, but this does not exclude fundamental changes in the current pension system. Citizens are already allowed to postpone the registration of pensions to later periods, that is, to temporarily postpone the assignment of payments and apply for their assignment in a year or two or several years. In this case, the incentive measure is to calculate the pension with an increasing coefficient.

Conclusion - it is possible that the retirement age for civil servants has been raised, which means a gradual transition to the implementation of measures to universally increase the retirement age. However, the State Duma has not yet conducted any considerations on this topic, and the restrictions for working pensioners consist only of an indefinite suspension of the annual indexation of payments.

How will the pension of municipal employees be calculated from January 1, 2017?

The latest news is about changes in calculations and the amount of the pension benefit itself. Thus, these individuals will now be able to retire when they reach 55.5 years (for women) and 60.5 years (for men) with an official work experience of 15.5 years.

The size of the pension benefit in this case is calculated as follows: the individual pension coefficient is multiplied by the cost of one point at the time of submitting the corresponding application to the pension fund of our legal state.

Insurance pensions for state and municipal employees from January 1, 2021 may be provided in the following cases:

• upon reaching a specific retirement age provided for in the current year;
• for disability, if the disease does not allow you to work or hold your previous position;
• for the loss of a breadwinner - in this case, benefits can be accrued after a trial.

Material benefits are subject to regular indexation in the following areas:

• Social pensions - their value is calculated based on the cost of living and the so-called adjustment coefficient, formed by the government of our rule-of-law state;
• Pensions of military personnel are calculated in a manner regulated in accordance with the law and depending on where the service took place. Benefit indexation was carried out only until April of the current year;
• Pensions for cosmonauts - their revision is carried out when the salaries of this category of citizens increase. If there are no plans to increase wages this year, then indexation will take place from the beginning of next year.

It is also worth noting that this year pension benefits increased by 4%. Next year it is also planned to reduce indexation to 4% (previously it was 12%).

What should you expect?

Speaking about whether there will be an increase in pensions for civil servants in Russia, it is worth noting that the Ministry of Labor has developed a whole plan, thanks to which the period for people to retire for retirement should increase - after 65 years. This bill clearly states information regarding what the pension for civil servants should be in 2021 and the conditions for its appointment. First of all, this applies to municipal and federal employees of the Russian Federation.

The age at which a person has the right to receive an additional payment to the basic payment has been changed. Previously, a long-service pension began to be paid to a civil servant as soon as he was assigned an old-age or disability pension. Legally, to be able to receive such an additional payment, you must have at least 15 years of work experience in a government position. As of 2021, this period has been changed to 20 years.

The only exceptions will be disability pensions: pensions assigned based on length of service in this case in 2017 should be accrued as before.

Long service pension for civil servants from 2021

The pension of this category of citizens is assigned in accordance with the norms of Federal Law No. 166, subject to the following conditions:

• having a work experience of over 15 years. Starting from 2021, this period increases by 6 months every year;
• filling the position of a federal employee for more than a year.

This year, the pension is accrued in the amount of 45% of the salary, subject to full compliance with all the conditions listed above. The amount of the premium is not taken into account in this case. If the work experience is 3 or more years in excess of the norm, then an additional 3% of the salary is added. However, in this case it is worth considering that the maximum amount of the accrued benefit cannot exceed 75% of the average annual income, taking into account all allowances and benefits.

Additional monetary allowance can be assigned to a civil servant only when living in difficult climatic conditions in accordance with the regional coefficient established there and government proposals. When moving to a permanent place of residence in a more favorable region, this allowance is canceled.

In conclusion, I would like to note that civil servants have the right to count on receiving a double pension benefit: insurance and for long service. Thus, employees who have worked in the public service for more than 25 years and have held the position of a federal employee for more than 7 years can apply for the maximum possible benefit. Starting in 2021, the retirement age will gradually increase until the actual age of 63 (for women) and 65 (for men). It is also planned to increase the length of service for each year by 6 months.

The State Duma raised the retirement age of civil servants to 65 years

The lower house of the Russian parliament adopted in the third reading a bill on raising the retirement age for “state civil servants, municipal employees, as well as persons who hold government positions in the Russian Federation, government positions in the regions and municipal positions” to 65 years for men and to 63 years for women (currently 60 and 55 years old, respectively).

The increase will not be immediate - it is envisaged that from next year the retirement age for them will increase by six months per year, that is, the maximum values ​​will be reached in 2032.

According to the law, civil servants will be able to begin receiving the insurance part of their pensions only upon reaching official retirement age, that is, later than most other citizens of the Russian Federation. However, they have a choice - they can resign from the civil service and apply for a pension, as they say, on a general basis.

However, it is much more profitable for officials to continue working than to retire.

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In 2015, the average assigned pension for federal civil servants in the country as a whole was 15.6 thousand rubles. (hereinafter - Rosstat data), and the average monthly salary is 33.5 thousand rubles. This is a good ratio, it is even slightly higher than in the country as a whole, where the average old-age pension last year was 11.6 thousand rubles, and the average salary was 33.9 thousand rubles.

But for those who work in government bodies of the constituent entities of the Federation (last year there were 207 thousand people against 505 thousand “federals”), a pension is already a much less attractive alternative, because they received 52.3 thousand rubles each. per month. And for employees of the central apparatus of ministries and departments, and there are almost 40 thousand of them, retirement (with dismissal) simply means a catastrophic loss of income. Their average salary in 2015 was 111.3 thousand rubles. per month, that is, almost ten times higher than the average size of pensions for federal civil servants. Employees of the government apparatus (231.8 thousand rubles), the presidential administration (217.179 thousand rubles), the Accounts Chamber (187.6 thousand rubles), the Federation Council (173.9 thousand rubles), Federal Treasury (165.8 thousand rubles), Ministry of Foreign Affairs (148.2 thousand rubles), State Duma (137 thousand rubles) and Ministry of Finance (130.9 thousand rubles).

In connection with the increase in the retirement age, the age limit for being in the state civil service is increasing from 60 to 65 years. For those holding positions in the “managers” category, the period of civil service can be extended to 70 years. However, the option of extending the term of civil service was also in the current Federal Law - after all possible extensions, by agreement of the parties, the employee could remain in the government agency “under the terms of a fixed-term employment contract in a position that is not a civil service position.”

To qualify for a long service pension (a monthly supplement to the pension), officials will have to work not 15 years, as now, but 20, but they will also be able to receive it only upon reaching retirement age.

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The state is interested in raising the retirement age for officials. Firstly, this allows you to save money on paying pensions to civil servants. Secondly, it is possible to retain qualified personnel, of whom less and less will enter the labor market every year due to a reduction in the working-age population by approximately 1 million annually.

It is worth noting that pension innovations for civil servants are a trial balloon for the new pension reform that the government and the Central Bank are preparing. One of the key elements of the transformation will obviously be raising the retirement age, but for all Russian citizens. By and large, today the discussion is around the start date of the increase, its pace and the final level.

Former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, who recently headed the Center for Strategic Research and became deputy head of the Economic Council under the President of Russia, is an ardent supporter of raising the retirement age.

“We need to announce the need to raise the retirement age. We could start, for example, in 2021, but right now we need to announce such a scenario, since a lot of preparatory work will need to be done. This issue needs to be taken off the table,” says Alexey Kudrin.

The retirement age, in his opinion, could be 63 years for men and women (currently 60 and 55 years). The question is the rate of increase: six months every year, a year or faster.

“Before the elections, we still need to discuss this issue, determine the parameters, make a decision and announce it after the elections,” the former finance minister noted.

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Minister of Economic Development Alexey Ulyukaev said that raising the retirement age is “an inevitable matter, but it will definitely be accepted.” “I think it is reasonable to announce this during an electorally calm period, for example at the end of 2021. And the calculations must be completed now,” the minister said.

He also cited age 63 for both men and women as the most likely target. Another option is to leave the five-year gap and raise it to 60 and 65 years, respectively. But Alexey Ulyukaev believes that this is “less rational.”

The Ministry of Finance proposes a more radical step - raising the retirement age for men and women to 65 years. This is consistent with the reform of pensions for civil servants.

At the same time, working pensioners are not expected to pay a fixed part of the pension. Let us remind you that from this year, pension payments will not be indexed for those pensioners who continue to work. The Ministry of Labor and Deputy Prime Minister for Social Affairs Olga Golodets are still against raising the retirement age.

While all ideas are under discussion, no decisions have been made on any item. Most likely, pension reform will begin, as Alexey Kudrin predicted, only after the 2021 presidential elections.